WHAT'S ON?

[Pink Betty]

....apart from Bridget Jones?

A couple of entertaining films.

For the Girls

Private Benjamin 22.50 (i think that's 10.50 to non-combatants) C4

"At a time when everyone was looking for a star vehicle for Goldie Hawn, she turned up in this high-octane tale about a Jewish princess who joins the US Army. It is basically a one-joke effort, but that joke has Hawn throwing herself with great gusto into the role of a bewildered spoilt brat who comes good, and her Oscar-nominated performance has huge charm. If only director Howard Zieff had allowed someone else to get a look in - the members of the supporting cast are mere satellites around a perky sun - and the screenplay had been broadened to contain more than just gags about broken fingernails. Even so, Eileen Brennan (as best supporting actress) and the writers also received Oscar nominations."

and for the Boys and Girls who have Channel Five

Point Break - C5 21 hundred hours (why can't they tell the time in civilian speak?) - translation: 9.00pm or thereabouts.

"Kathryn Bigelow shows that the action adventure is not just the preserve of the lads in this silly but hugely enjoyable thriller. Keanu Reeves plays the young FBI agent who unsurprisingly makes a very convincing surfing dude when he goes undercover to infiltrate a gang, headed by Patrick Swayze, suspected of carrying out a string of audacious bank robberies. Try to ignore the mystical claptrap and concentrate instead on Bigelow's stunningly conceived action set pieces, as well as some exhilarating sky-diving and surfing scenes. For Reeves, this proved to be a dry, or more accurately wet, run for Speed, and he acquits himself reasonably well, while Swayze makes a convincing enough villain. The reliable supporting players include Gary Busey, John McGinley and James LeGros."

[Daz Madrigal]

And for the Boys?

[sandywinder]

There's a program on tonight that sounds interesting.


Where did all the British taxpayer's money go to when so much was spent by Brown on the NHS?

Channel 4's Dispatches AGAIN.

That program deserves an award.

The Sandy 'Tell It How It Is' award.

[Daz Madrigal]

Tell what how it is?

Lissen, Sandy you wouldn't know opium from birdseed, Mate!

Now...<< PAUSE FOR EFFECT >>

Oh Yea! Oh Yea! Oh Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Tonight all my instincts that Global Warming is just a ploy that scientists have thought up to get rich will be proven to be true tonite...

WATCH THEE
GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE!! (9 p.m. Thursday!)

[Daz Madrigal]

Whats on?

There was a programme where some rather odd bloke goes off to different countries to eat very odd foods. This week it was 'the Karen' a very peaceful people similar to Buddhists who are currently in danger of being killed en masse by those nice little Communists, Gus like so much..er..the Burmese Army.

Second only to thee Chinese Army for sheer brutality of purpose!

Anyway..to cut it short..he ate Civet Cat, a small Monkey and the piece de resistance...what else but juicy maggots.

..now I could possibly eat the Cat and Monkey but..maggots?

No way.

Then still on a foodie them theres Kill It, Cook It, Eat It..a gimmicky programme with lots of red faced farmers looking pleased with themselves and a few similar Butchers who weren't fit to sharpen my old Granddads meat cleaver.

Anyway..you get the Cow, kill it with the stun gun and then cook it after doing the most interesting thing which is getting the different cuts of meat and displaying them in as nice a manner as possible.

Not interesting really if I didn't know something about cuts of meat..its interesting how he was insistent that the poorer fatty cuts were well worth buying (hmm..nothing to do with not selling half the Cow then).

At my Grandfathers butchers the poorer cuts were usually the first to go because no one could afford stuff like Sirloin and Fillet Steak...was a bit disappointed he didn't show the Chateaubriand.

And woe is me..

Still on food!

Some weird programme called "I Will Eat Nothing But..." about people who can/will only eat one thing and one thing only. Last week it was a girl who only ate Chips...and it was pathetic to see the Trick Cyclists futile attempts to change her ways..

However this week - Spaghetti Hoop Man - they DID manage to make him eat a proper meal without either gagging or throwing it up.

..thats when I decided it was 'serious programme'...after seeing the guy throw up everything fed him apart from lovely Heinz hoops..yummy!

Last not but Least..

That Building programme...there was a guy who had a huge Cottage which mysteriously caught fire during a week he was on holiday. It was destroyed and then - horror of horrors - he'd just found out that his Insurance had run it.

..well call me a cynic but isn't it far MORE likely that he had wanted to build a Modern house instead of some old dump that was falling apart but had been stopped from Planning permission. Still he got the sympathy vote - I'd say him and his Wife were lying through their back teeth from start to finish.

[Daz Madrigal]

Yeh whats on?

Now who take any notice of the Stars in all the Newspapers..if you saw a film with one star like the film starring Angie Jolie last night would you think..well its cr@p so I won't bother. In actual fact it was quite good - at first anyway - err Jolie is a good actress. Oddly charismatic..is she beautiful? yes but not thee most beautiful surely?

The lips look too big..I mean obviously I'd give her the heave with lips like that. It looks as if she's had them injected. Even so she;s very sexy, magnetic and so forth..she was worth watching just for her acting. One star indeed!

On thee subject of sexy actresses...err..Gillian Anderson. << swoons and dies >> as the stray cat Sucide Gals used to write..usually for some ugly brute with lots o tats and piercings ...she may be just 5ft 1in but she sure packs a punch. Very sexy, very pretty..yes I like redheads..and more importantly and maturely a brilliant actress.

Gwyneth and Nicole = Average

Gillian Anderson = Top Notch

Renee Zellweger = Possibly the very best actress of all.

The film was House of Mirth..intriguing plot at first, period drama but with the most abysmal ending, although it made sense it was just a very sad ending when after all the misery you expect some sunlight. Gillian Anderson pulled off the part with aplomb.

[Gadfly]

On Horizon..a very silly programme about science, suggests that if the Dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out because of meteorites/volcanoes/global freezing/global warming/dinosaur hunting/who knows?..we would now be "keeping them as pets".



No thanks!

[sandywinder]

Yeah. They would probably be keeping us as pets.

[gus2]

Might be worth watching tonight Sky Movies 6 at 19.15 hrs
The March of the Penguins.

Tomorrow night at 21.00 on BBC 2
Simon Scharma ... Rough Crosssing
It tells the story of an anti slavery man who transported 1,000 ex slaves from Nova Scotia back to Freetown Sierra Leone.
He encounterd lots of unscrupulous people in Freetown, seems it hasn't changed much since I was last there. ;D

gus

[Pink Betty]

I have a real problem with that smarmy scharma chappy - the very sight and sound of him makes my skin crawl.....other than that, it sounds an interesting program. Unfortunately i don't have sky.